Meryl Streep says Dustin Hoffman 'offense' claim was inaccurate

Meryl Streep claimed in 1979 that Dustin Hoffman grabbed her breast the first time they met. (Getty Images)

A week after a former production assistant accused Dustin Hoffman of sexual harassment in 1985, another decades-old accusation was unearthed.

Meryl Streep claimed in a 1979 Time magazine interview that Hoffman, who co-starred with her in "Kramer vs. Kramer," groped her the first time they met.

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"He came up to me and said, 'I'm Dustin — burp — Hoffman,' and he put his hand on my breast," Streep said in the interview discovered by Slate. "What an obnoxious pig, I thought."

While it doesn't appear that Hoffman ever commented on the accusations, Streep's rep said Monday that the article is not an "accurate rendering of that meeting."

"There was an offense and it is something for which Dustin apologized. And Meryl accepted that," her rep told the Daily News.

In the 2016 biography "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep," author Michael Schulman detailed more interactions between Streep and Hoffman, including when he slapped her to draw a reaction during an emotional scene.

When that wasn't enough, Hoffman allegedly taunted her about her boyfriend John Cazale, who had recently died of cancer.

The two co-starred in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” (Columbia Pictures/Getty Images)

In early November, author Anna Graham Hunter accused Hoffman of grabbing her butt and flirting with her on the set of the 1985 TV movie "Death of a Salesman" when she was just 17 years old.

"One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time. Then he said, 'I'll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris,'" Hunter wrote in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter.

"His entourage burst out laughing. I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried."

Hoffman apologized and said the actions were "not reflective" of his character.

"I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am," he said in a statement.